We shot our first sailing film at the 1972 Olympic Games. It features Buddy Melges & crew winning gold in Solings. This is but one of the dozen classic films now available for purchase. Enjoy!

and, as a kind of an experiment, you can RENT "The Best Defense" to watch any time in a three day period.If the experiment works, we will make more films available to stream. Please click here to see more

videos

Notes on DVD orders :Please send us an e-mail, from the CONTACT page, with your name & mailing address so we can get your shipment to you quickly.IF YOU ARE ORDERING MULTIPLE DVD TITLES - please select NO SHIPPING on all but ONE title. You only pay shipping once! Thank you!

Now you can also rent The Best Defense Video! Please click here to see more

The Offshore Collection

It is now possible to obtain our entire collection of 12 films at a 25% discount to the individual price. That is 6.62 hours of classic sailing film for under $15 per hour. Delivery will be secure custom download

Heavy Weather Slalom

Kiaola to Jamaica

Jim Kilroy and his crack crew of KIALOA III try to break the course record set by WINDWARD PASSAGE in the best ocean race of them all, Miami to Montego Bay. Onboard and over-head, our cameras record the beauty and tension of a great race.

Kingston Olympiad

A new look came to Olympic sailing when the dramatic Tornado catamaran was added for the '76
Games in Canada. Our camera sailed with gold medalist Reg White, and presents highlights from all the classes.

Big Boats

One of our most beautiful and popular films. Five Maxis racing on San Francisco Bay, filmed from
every angle, including on deck. Winner of a Cine Golden Eagle and the Grand Prize of the 1979 Festival of Sailing Films at La Rochelle.

Freedom

From the launching of the defender, for which the film is named, to the launching of the victorious
skipper into Newport harbor, the 1980 film is a sailor's eye view of the Cup summer. Winner of a Cine Golden Eagle.

Maximum Effort

The latest of the "KIALOA Series" looks at the design, development, equipment and first S.O.R.C. of the Ron Holland eighty footer. This film features great onboard action, as well as solid technical information.

Eyedeens (18) Footers

The most spectacular monohulls in the world racing in the strong winds of San Francisco Bay. Planing at 14 knots upwind, reaching at 30 and crashing with some regularity. Best in class at La Rochelle in 1983.

Long Beach Olympiad

The U. S. Team ran off with the regatta; 3 Gold and 4 Silver medals - a medal in every class, including the newly introduced sailboard. Winner of a Cine Golden Eagle and a Special Screeing at La Rochelle in 1985.

KILROY WAS THERE

DVD ONLY - 3 films featuring Jim Kilroy's boats - KIALOA TO JAMAICA, BIG BOATS & MAXIMUM EFFORT on a single DVD. IF YOU ARE ORDERING MULTIPLE DVD TITLES - please select NO SHIPPING on all but ONE title. You only pay shipping once! Thank you!

Price: $25.00 +

A note about image quality: As you see, these films were all made over 30 years ago, on 16mm film. They looked great when projected, but when it came time to transfer them to video, the trouble started. The non-digital transfer system was very low resolution compared to the HD video standard of today.

DVD Shipping: Please note that shipping is per order, not per DVD. If you are ordering more than one DVD, only click on shipping once.

contact

If you have any questions or comments, please contact us using this form. Thank you!

Dick Enersen, President

78 Edward Ave. San Rafael, CA

(415) 819-3040

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about offshore

I was born in San Francisco in 1943 and learned to sail in Belvedere, starting at the age of eight. My parents were golfers, uninterested in boats, so my odds of becoming an owner were not good. I learned, from lots of wonderful skippers, to be good crew. Meanwhile I got a terrific academic education, which widened my world considerably, leading to a Transpac in ’61, Bermuda in ’62, and the ’64 America’s Cup campaign on CONSTELLATION.

After a childhood theoretically aimed at law school, I tacked, at the last moment, in favor of a Masters degree in film, which led to my being recruited to work at KING Screen Productions in Seattle. KSP failed to live up to its ambition, so, after a couple of years, I was on my own.

My first sailing film was shot at the 1972 Olympic Games, in collaboration with Laszlo Pal, a fine filmmaker whom I met at KSP. I started Offshore as a way to distribute “Kiel Olympiad” and to finance and produce more films about the sport I love.

This website is dedicated to the two fellows on the left, Jay Broze and Randy Franken, both of whom worked on many of our films and both of whom crossed the bar way too soon. Also pictured are Maude Retchin Feil and John Borden. The photo was taken in 2007, at the 30th reunion of the “Best Defense” crew.